Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Having put SAP’s HANA in-memory database on its Linux, Red Hat has gone off-premise with Amazon. The Linux shop has announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is now…

The Dronecode open-source UAV platform initiative has announced that it has welcomed on board a raft of new members, who’ll help drive the project towards becoming a de facto standard…

HP security research bod Dustin Childs says the company couldn’t get Microsoft to patch an IE exploit, so it’s gone public.

Every time Dell teases the Linux community with a new Linux-powered desktop, the relationship lasts for a few months, and then it’s over. Dell is at it again. However, this…

Red Hat’s sales jumped 14 per cent, year-on-year, in the quarter that ended May 31, thanks to contracts with government and cloud providers.

It seems Microsoft has failed to make a dent in Google’s and Apple’s dominance of the smartphone market.  A report out today from comScore suggests Windows phone has lost over…

Her Majetsy’s Revenues and Customs (HMRC) has become the first major government department to dump Microsoft in favour of Google.

Microsoft executives telephoned Conservative MPs threatening to shut down a facility in their local area because of planned IT reforms, David Cameron’s former strategy chief has claimed.

Lia De Cicco Remu, the director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada, believes pencils, paper, and chalkboards are all outdated methods of teaching. If De Cicco Remu has her…

HP is having another go at selling Linux-based laptops with a new line of low-cost notebooks based on Ubuntu Linux, which it will sell in the UK via online retail…

There’s one very good reason that Microsoft is so keen to get customers on board with its Microsoft Office 365 subscription service.  Companies that go with Office 365 are more…

Fourteen critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer were among the targets of Microsoft’s monthly batch of security patches released Tuesday. In all, it fixed 46 vulnerabilities across products including Windows, Internet…

Microsoft hopes free upgrades of Windows 10 will attract customers and lead to subscriptions with recurring revenue.

Old enemies are becoming new allies as technology shifts from the PC/desktop model to first mobile computing and now the Internet of Things (IoT). Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is…

In yet another sign that Microsoft is a very different animal these days, the company has released PowerShell DSC (desired state configuration) for Linux.  PowerShell DSC is a server configuration…